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Published · transcript-backedRoss Douthat: belief
5 Feb 2025 Conversations with Tyler Ross Douthat on Why Religion Makes More Sense Than You Think
“There are powerful newspaper accounts, including, I think, in The New York Times.”
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- Ross Douthat
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- 5 Feb 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…I can hear Winston Churchill on YouTube, right? There’s the miracle of the sun at Fatima in the early part of the 20th century that did happen in front of a large number of witnesses. There are powerful newspaper accounts, including, I think, in The New York Times. There’s a reason that it’s been hotly debated ever since, but whatever it was, it was something that clearly — had there been video cameras there — something would’ve been perceived. There’s a similar case in Egypt involving an apparition of the Virgin Mary where there’s footage and so on. What would be, I guess, convincing to you? If I presented you tomorrow with a video of the Archangel Michael walking through the halls of George Mason, wielding a sword, you would assume that it was AI-generated at this point, right? I would bring it to someone, and I could find out.…
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